2009 August 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Season 3 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) officially commenced on Tuesday as the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau opened its doors to the first of three main event flights that will flow through the PokerStars Macau Poker Room this…

The Elmwood Oasis, Harahan’s lone truck stop, could have video poker in less than 30 days. That’s the word from George Ackel Jr., part-owner of the truck stop at 6025 Jefferson Highway . The State Police Gaming Enforcement Division conducted a final inspection of the property Tuesday as part of its application for a video poker license.

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The state’s top gambling regulator said today it will be “absolutely impossible” to meet a mid-September deadline for drafting rules needed to roll out legalized video poker around Illinois. State Gaming Board Chairman Aaron Jaffe, speaking at the oversight panel’s monthly meeting, said the legalization of video poker and other electronic games is “a completely different ball game,” than …

A dozen and a half devoted poker players are warming up at Tekila Willies.

Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz, who also runs a major liquor distribution business, today filed a legal challenge to the state’s new video poker law as well as liquor, candy and other tax hikes slated to go into effect Sept. 1. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, represents a direct assault on controversial funding mechanisms recently passed by Illinois lawmakers and signed by Gov …

A group of Elmhurst aldermen took the first step Monday to ban video poker machines from coming into the city.